On Friday June 20 2008 11:47, you wrote: >There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete, and >replaced by some HTML or XML derivative. Many technical publishers >have already made the transition. See, for example, the following > link from Cambridge University Press > > https://authornet.cambridge.org/information/productionguide/stm/XML_w >orkflow.asp#xml_introduction
https://authornet.cambridge.org/information/productionguide/stm/LaTex_workflow.asp Looks like they support LaTeX just fine. From that page, it even sounds like submitting in LaTeX will result in a a faster time to actual publication: "LaTeX workflows are generally speedier than the XML or conventional equivalents." I saw no evidence that LaTeX is being replaced by XML. I did note that they say the majority of books use XML, but i'm guessing more potential authors these days have a word processor that can spit out some form of XML than know how to write LaTeX. Please note that i'm a bit biased though. For what few papers i have to write these days i use my favorite text editor to write LaTeX files. I've been using it for close to a decade. In that time i've found LaTeX has some similarties to OpenBSD. In either case, i've learned to trust that someone smarter than me (at least in the areas of page layout and Unix system administration) spent some time considering everything, and i should just use the default settings unless i have a legitimate reason for wanting to change them. In other words, don't turn the knobs just for the sake of turning them. By following that simple rule, it is quite fast and easy to write something in LaTeX, and the output is good. Similarly, setting up and using an OpenBSD system is fast and easy, and it just works. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA
